John Rice
Author
Language
English
Description
Private Detective Mike Sullivan is fighting to save his family detective agency. As he enters middle-age, the flow of new assignments has slowed to a trickle. The forces against him include a worldwide recession, and the loss of his well-heeled clients. He fears for the future of his wife and two kids. After decades of high-stakes investigation, he is forced to take whatever work he can find. Sullivan does not fit the mold of world-weary detectives...
Author
Language
English
Description
The book “WinCrafting” is about creating profound levels of winning in every area of life which truly matters to an individual.
The book begins by suggesting the phrase "The Beautiful Music Possibility" as a new METRIC, and also a new TERRITORY. When you look at each area of your life which you really care about, and consider the question, "How's it going?"... is what you see as beautiful as the most beautiful music you've ever heard in your...
Author
Language
English
Description
John Andrew Rice's autobiography, first published to critical acclaim in 1942, is a remarkable tour through late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century America. When the book was suppressed by the publisher soon after its appearance because of legal threats by a college president described in the book, the nation lost a rich first-person historical account of race and class relations during a critical period-not only during the days of Rice's youth,...
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Scientists travel the world to solve eleven of nature's most intriguing puzzles. The stories are true cases of science in action--the challenging and often creative process of revealing nature's secrets.
5) Windtalkers
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
In the Pacific theater during World War II, a Marine is assigned to protect a Navajo codetalker.
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
From the makers of Father Brown and Shakespeare and Hathaway, Private Investigators comes a light-hearted murder mystery series. It's the 1960s and police forensics are rudimentary. Luckily the residents of Great Slaughter, nestled deep in the British countryside, have a secret weapon. Sister Boniface. This nun might be predisposed to forgive but she's also one hell of an amateur detective. If there's evidence to be found, Boniface will find it, with...
11) A Child's Voice
Author
Language
English
Description
Supernatural thriller. A homeless teen answers the voice of a child calling out for help and is sent on a mission to save the life of a young immigrant woman from human traffickers.
12) Bonnie & Clyde
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of Clyde Barrow, a charismatic convicted armed robber who sweeps Bonnie Parker, an impressionable, petite, small-town waitress, off her feet. The two embark on one of the most infamous bank-robbing sprees in history.
13) Game Day
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Language
English
Description
An Italian-American family in Philadelphia gathers on Sunday to cheer their beloved Eagles against their most hated rival, the Cowboys. As the game unfolds, family secrets are revealed, sparking rivalries that become wilder than the game. Who will win?